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Flora Rebello Arduini

Flora Rebello Arduini is a business and international human rights law expert and focuses her work on the spread of disinformation on social media, its impacts on society at large and the efforts to regulate the industry.

Flora Rebello Arduini is a business and international human rights law expert and focuses her work on the spread of disinformation on social media, its impacts on society at large and the efforts to regulate the industry. As Campaigns Director at Ekō, a non-profit global organisation, she manages the Latin America corporate accountability program and leads strategic advocacy projects on international Big Tech regulation.

In 2018, Flora created a methodology using OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tools to map coordinated networks creating and amplifying disinformation and hate speech online ahead of crucial elections. The investigations she leads have been cited by the European Commission and the United Nations and featured by such top media outlets as TIME and The New York Times.

Born in Brazil, Flora currently lives in London. She holds a Cum Laude LLM in Globalisation and Law specialising in International Human Rights Law at Maastricht University, and a Full Honours BA in International Science and European Institutions specialising in International Organisations at Università Statale di Milano. Flora has authored academic articles such as the one at Amsterdam Law Review and editorials such as the one Folha de S. Paulo.

See Flora Rebello Arduini at:

  • 24 May - The Global Conversation
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Summit talks: technology and ethics

I’m not afraid. You’re afraid.

A thought-provoking talk by technology ethicist Tristan Harris, on the race between technology creators and our regulation on AI and our ever-increasing addiction to social media.

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Summit talks: history of disinformation

Manipulating the marginalised.

Watch researcher and scholar Rachel Kuo chart the history of how misinformation and disinformation has been used against the disenfranchised across different racial and religious groups and what we can do collectively to combat it.

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“I don’t think the truth has ever mattered more”

Watch Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, discuss the upcoming Nobel Prize Summit.

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“With the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit we will promote the scientific method, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue.”

Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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